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The news director's remark is a Microinsult. Microinsults are actions (verbal, nonverbal, or environmental) that convey insensitivity, rudeness, or demeans a person's racial identity or heritage. These microaggressions hurt and oppress People of Color because they suggest that the physical appearance, values and communication styles of People of Color are abnormal.
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MicroInvalidations ( the third form of Racial Microaggressions) are statements that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color” (Sue, Bucceri et al., 2007). Colorblindness is an example of a Microinvaliidation. Although it was accepted once, it raises a lot of questions and concerns today. Watch this short clip and check out why it is not okay to be Colorblind. Microinsults ( another form of Racial Microaggressions) are “behavioral actions or verbal remarks that convey rudeness, insensitivity, or demeans a person’s racial identity or heritage” The article below is an example of a Microinsult. It illustrates how Students of Color experience racial microaggressions on a daily basis. Oklahoma School Changes Policy On Dreadlocks
[email protected] (Rebecca Klein) - Sep 10, 2013 9:22:39 PM TULSA, Okla. -- An Oklahoma charter school has changed its dress code after inciting criticism for telling a 7-year-old girl that her dreadlocks violated the school's policy. Racial microaggressions as brief and daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group. Sue (2010) contends that the subtle messages of racism are more harmful than overt acts of racism because they occur daily occurrence and are often invisible. Subtle messages are neither illegal nor regulated and the persons committing the microaggression may be unaware that it is a form of racism. |